I need encrypted Internet access

As most of you know, all our emails, internet traffic and online data are recorded by our ISPs and are vulnerable to all kinds of snooping, including hackers and I don't know what. So, I really want to secure my internet connection to prevent ID theft first and to prevent anyone of monitoring my surfing habits, which could facilitate the hacking of my financial accounts.

Now, I'm looking for a reliable online privacy provider. Do you guys have any recommendations?

Unless your ISP is your email provider I think the only thing they record is your connectivity to various IP addresses.

Use of Anonymizer will provide protection after you go through them. However, the only protection you have between your location and the anonymizer site is the Secure Socket Layer Protocol or the secure tunneling option (higher price). Both are adequate protection but I believe that both these encryption techniques have been defeated (publicly acknowledged). Unless what you want to protect is illegal, you are probably safe from snooping.

2. The encryption protocols have not been publically acknowledged as defeated. There have been well publicised breaks of some protocols but you can get good protection from the current set. By the time they could (even) theoretically be broken the information is no longer useful so you can be confident that its not worth it for most of us would get good protection from them.